Rationales of ownership
Subtitle: ethnographic studies of transactions and claims to ownership in contemporary Papua New Guinea
By: edited by Lawrence Kalinoe, James Leach.
Contributors: Kalinoe, Lawrence Kuna.; Leach, James, 1969-
Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors Ltd.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Property -- Papua New Guinea.; Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Papua New Guinea.; Customary law -- Papua New Guinea.; Property -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea.; Land tenure -- Social aspects -- Papua New Guinea.; Indigenous peoples -- Papua New Guinea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-186).
Originates out of the ESRC funded joint project between Cambridge and Brunel Universities in the U.K.: Property, Transactions and Creations : New Economic Relations in the Pacific.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rationales of ownership -- Marilyn Strathern; title: Mining boundaries and local land narrative (tidibe) in the Udabe Valley, Central Province -- Eric Hirsch; title: Disputing damage versus disputing ownership in Suau -- Melissa Demian; title: Land, trees and history : disputes involving boundaries and identities in the context of development -- James Leach; title: Bases of ownership claims over natural resources by indigenous peoples in Papua New Guinea -- Lawrence Kalinoe; title: Keeping the network in view : compensation claims, property and social relation in Melanesia -- Stuart Kirsch; title: Combining rationales from Bolivip : the person and property rights legislation in Papua New Guinea -- Tony Crook; title: Global and local contexts -- Marilyn Strathern.